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...Africanized bee's physiology. There is some evidence, for example, that killer bees do not thrive in colder climates. But even if they colonize only in the warmer Southern states, there is plenty of reason to worry about the potential costs. Lost sales of honey and damage to fruit, nut and vegetable crops worth billions of dollars each year could be substantial, not to mention lives lost to fatal stings...
Officials at UMass agreed to take action against students who commit racial violence, while the school's chancellor, Joseph Duffey, sent the protesters a basket of fruit...
...unable to cash their paychecks, the government is selling so-called dignity bags of rice, beans and other staples at a discount from regular prices. The crisis has brought relatively little new hardship for the poor, so far. Hereberto Lombaro, 33, says he makes about $20 a day selling fruit-flavored ices from a pushcart. "I don't care what the Americans do," he says, grinning up at the cloudless sky. "As long as it stays hot, I'll have customers...
...Islamic patrol, drawn from young men known as the Fruit of Islam, got off to a rough start. On their first day, a group of Muslims beat up a suspected drug dealer who was carrying a shotgun, as well as a television cameraman. The local Muslim leader, Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, later apologized to the cameraman...
...working with the Muslims, saying, "We need all the eyes and ears we can." Although in the past year police have made more than 1,300 arrests in the complex (the entire resident population is only 2,000), they have not been able to stop the drug traffic. The Fruit of Islam is ordered to call the police if trouble begins...